On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 12:14:29AM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 6:47 PM, Greg Jaskiewicz <gryzman@me.com> wrote:
> > Looking around the code Today, one of my helpful tools detected this dead code.
> > As far as I can see, it is actually unused call to strlen() in formatting.c, float8_to_char().
>
> I poked at this a little and suggest the following somewhat more
> extensive cleanup.
>
> It seems to me that there are a bunch of these functions where len is
> unconditionally initialized in NUM_TOCHAR_prepare and then used there.
> Similarly in NUM_TOCHAR_cleanup. And then there's a chunk of each
> individual function that does it a third time. Rather than use the
> same variable in all three places, I've moved the variable
> declarations to the innermost possible scope. Doing that revealed a
> bunch of other, similar places where we can get rid of strlen() calls.
>
> Does this version seem like a good idea?
Robert, were you going to apply this patch from April?
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